Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roscoe Drummond: "[He] is a different, improved and more effective campaigner than . . . Washington correspondents have seen in action before." Wrote Columnist Joseph Alsop: "It is reassuring to be able to report that this harddriving, remarkably competent but sometimes rather inhuman governor is still growing as a man and a leader...
...Chaim Weizmann, 73-year-old Jewish leader who was elected President of the Provisional Government of Israel, made his first state visit this week to the President of the U.S. Blair House, official guest house for visiting foreign dignitaries, hung out the blue and white flag of the world's newest nation. For Zionists it was another moment for rejoicing...
...Louis' Bill Sentner is a labor leader who has never made any bones about his politics; he is a Communist and proud of it. He is a general vice president of the C.I.O.'s Communist-dominated United Electrical Workers and president of its District...
...giant was Big Bill Haywood, leader of the Wobblies, who had come to take over-and win-the bitter Lawrence textile strike of 1912. The towheaded boy of 15 was Fred Erwin Beal, a millworker and a striker. Both were to take refuge one day in Russia: Haywood to die there, Beal to live and taste Communism curdling in his mouth...
Many of the women had spent years fighting for Communism as members of the party, among them Bulgaria's Tsola Dragoicheva and Jeannette Vermeersch Thorez (sturdy helpmeet of France's Communist leader). A self-declared exception was the U.S.'s small, intense Muriel Draper,* noted dilettante whose salons in London and Manhattan were once brilliantly haunted by the world's famous, from Henry James to Gertrude Stein. Amid her drably dressed fellow delegates she appeared in a white-stitched black linen Clare McCardell creation. She explained that the dress was really quite inexpensive. (She always...